In the first part of this episode I talk to afshan d'souza-lodhi, a Manchester-based poet and screenwriter whose first collection [re:desire] came out in 2020 with Burning Eye Books, about how she got into poetry.
And in the second part I talk to Kirstie, a Save Glasgow Libraries campaigner who works for the charity United to Prevent Suicide, about afshan's poem 'black marigolds'.
An avid reader of fiction, Kirstie says poetry is something she's "always struggled with" and "never been able to get into". She also tells me that although she enjoyed poetry as a child, the idea of reading poetry now "fills [her] with dread!" Despite this, we find lots to discuss and google in afshan's poem, which forces us both think outside the box when it comes to poetry.
Read the poem in full here: https://time41poem.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/it-fills-me-with-dread/
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CREDITS
Producer/host: Annie Muir ~ @time41poem
Editor: Jack Rientoul ~ @jackrientoul
Music: JANSKY ~ @radiojansky
Artwork: Max Machen ~ @maxymachen
This podcast was made using funding from the National Lottery, through Creative Scotland.
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More about afshan: https://afshandl.com/
More about United to Prevent Suicide: https://unitedtopreventsuicide.org.uk/
